Weeks after former minister and senior leader Balineni Srinivas Reddy from Ongole quit the YSR Congress party and joined the Jana Sena Party, yet another senior YSRCP leader is learnt to have decided to call it quits and join the ruling Telugu Desam Party.
According to sources, senior leader Manugunta Maheedhar Reddy has decided to resign from the party. He reportedly got the green signal for the entry into the TDP and in all probability, he might take a call in a couple of days.
Sources said Manugunta had been in touch with Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy and Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy, who had earlier been with the YSRCP and later got elected as MPs from the TDP in the recent elections.
Both of them lobbied with TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu for allowing Manugunta into the TDP.
In fact, there were reports that Manugunta would quit the YSRCP during the elections itself, after he was denied the party ticket from Kandukuru assembly constituency, which he had represented four times in the past. He was also a minister in the cabinet of Kiran Kumar Reddy in 2011.
Though Manugunta did not resign from the YSRCP since then, he has been keeping away form the party activities.
Very recently, he got the photographs of YSRCP president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy removed from his office and also on the flex boards in Kandukur.
He, along with another former MLA Maddisetty Venugopal from Darsi, abstained from recent party programmes, leading to the speculations that they might not continue in the party for long.